TPT March 2011

Diary of Tube Events

Oil, gas and drilling fuels

2011 MARCH

US tube demand

Boru 2011 Istanbul, Turkey Exhibition ‘Made in Steel’ Brescia, Italy Exhibition

 Email : info@ihlasfuar.com Website : www.borufuari.com

3-6

 Website : www.madeinsteel.it

23-25

ELECTRIC furnaces at TMK IPSCO’s steel plant in the US have been running at full capacity since the end of 2009 because of booming orders from the oil and gas industry – and the company’s chief executive says production will continue. Piotr Galitzine, chairman of TMK IPSCO, said the company has doubled production – from 450,000 tons of seamless and welded pipe in 2009 to a current output of nearly 1 million tons. The company also is hiring at its plants in Beaver County, Ohio and in Trumbull County. “We started seeing an improvement from 2009 levels at the end of the first quarter of 2010, and it kept going up steadily from there,” Mr Galitzine said. “We will add an additional 50 people by the end of March. By year-end, we will be up 80 to 100 people.” Increased drilling activity in Marcellus shale and other natural gas-producing shale beds are fuelling increased demand for tubular steel, Mr Galitzine said. Based in Lisle, TMK IPSCO is a subsidiary of OAO TMK, Russia’s largest tubemaker. OAO purchased former Koppel Steel plants in Koppel and Ambridge in 2008. Steel analysts and industry experts say tubular production has increased significantly. “We are seeing increased levels of production across product lines,” said William A Wolfe, who heads the Steel Tube Institute of North America. US Steel Corp announced in December a $95mn expansion of its Ohio tubing plant. It is expected to create 150 temporary construction jobs and 100 full- time jobs in addition to 500 existing jobs. Production is expected to begin in the third quarter. TMK IPSCO – USA Fax: +1 630 874 6431 Website: www.tmk-group.com

MAY

Tube Russia 2011 Moscow, Russia Exhibition

 Email : ryfischd@messe-duesseldorf.de Website : www.metallurgy-tube-russia.com

23-26

JUNE

Yokohama Pipe & Tube 2011 Japan Joint Symposium ITA/JSTP

 Email : info@itatube.org Website : www.itatube.org

13-15

SEPTEMBER

Tube Southeast Asia Bangkok, Thailand Exhibition EMO Hanover, Germany Exhibition

 Website : www.tube-southeastasia.com

13-15

 Website : www.emo-hannover.de

19-24

OCTOBER

Tubotech São Paulo, Brazil Exhibition

 Email : cipa@cipanet.com.br Website : www.cipanet.com.br

4-6

NOVEMBER

Pipe & Tube World Conference Düsseldorf, Germany Conference

 Email : info@itatube.org Website : www.itatube.org

7-9

Fabtech Chicago, USA Exhibition TOLExpo Paris, France Exhibition

 Email : information@fmafabtech.com Website : www.fabtechexpo.com

14-17

 Website : www.tolexpo.com

15-18

2012 MARCH

Tube / wire Düsseldorf 2012 Düsseldorf, Germany Exhibition

 Email : infoservice@messe-duesseldorf.de Website : www.tube.de www.messe-duesseldorf.de

26-30

OCTOBER

Tube India Mumbai, India Exhibition

 Email : dughl@md-india.com Website : www.tube.india.com

29-31

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